The Australian Egyptian Forum Council (AEFC) organised a celebration dinner in the University's Great Hall on Thursday 15th February 2018 to acknowledge and honour some very bright Young Egyptian Australians for their splendid achievements in their HSC results during the academic years of 2016 and 2017.

Now available on SoundCloud: What is the position of the translator as cultural mediator? Listen to the sold-out Sydney Ideas event featuring our Head of School Professor Yixu Lu FAHA, Professor Vrasidas Karalis, Professor Adrian Vickers and Dr Joshua Stenberg as they explore the significance of translation, its impact on encounters between people, and its contribution to social cohesion especially in multicultural and multi-faith societies like Australia.

The SLC Translatability of Cultures Huddle and Multilingual Australia: Past and Present Retreat, both supported by Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre (SSSHARC) and SLC, took place from 5 – 9 February 2018.

Well known scholar and author on Jesus and Christianity ,Dr John Dickson, will be lecturing in the course ‘Historical Jesus to Written Gospels’ in our Department this semester.
Since completing his PhD in Ancient History at Macquarie University (2001) focusing on the birth of Christianity in its Jewish and Graeco-Roman

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Lecturers from the School of Languages and Cultures will participate in this year's Sydney Writers' Festival (30 April – 6 May) to join in lively discussions on the importance of literature in the transformational power of ideas.

Introducing Eurovision: Re-visioning Europe – EUST2112, a new elective open to all undergraduate students to give insight into the history of Europe through the glamorous lens of the famous song contest.